hi, i am Bonnie Dunn Smith hope you luck in your new adventure will keep up. On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:26:00 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > Welcome, I am semi-retired also, my big box store closed last year, >and have been working on honey-do list, and keeping house house and >yard in order. My Wise's are from Pennsylvaina - Ohio - and settled >in Michigan. > Jerry Wise > > > -----Original Message----- >From: Billie Erin Walsh <[email protected]> > To: WISE <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:20 am > Subject: [WISE] Greetings, Felicitations, and just plain HOWDY > > > > A short time back I noticed that the list was up for adoption. SO, >I'm > the new list administrator. Not that it's such a tough job or >anything. > Anyway, I just wanted to say hello. Fell free to e-mail me with any >list > oriented issues you might have. > > I see there are 155 of us on the list. > > My name is Billie Walsh. I'm 62 years old and {re}tired. I firmly > believe that genealogy is about a lot more than just names and >dates. >Family stories are just as important. It's the stories that make our > ancestors live again for us. I was a mechanic for a number of years >and > when good ol' Uncle Arthur got to me I made a career change into >retail. > Spent seventeen years in a Big Box Store. I thought it was fun [ for >the > most part ]. My foray into genealogy began when one of my daughters > asked me, well basically, "Where do we come from?" At that point I > didn't have an answer so I started digging to get her one. It's >been an > interesting journey. Sometimes fun and some times frustrating. Every > time I find one answer I get two more questions. *<]:oD > > As long as things don't get to far afield I see no problem with >posts > related to just about anything WISE. [ family stories, old family > recipes, etc. ] > >For some that might not know, typing in ALL CAPS is allowed for >surnames > on genealogy lists and is preferred [ see above ]. [ In some other >areas > typing in all caps will get you blasted. It's considered shouting ] >It > helps those reading messages to pick out related family names >quickly. > It's not a hard and fast rule but I would ask that anyone posting >please > use all caps for surnames. > > I promise not to be a dictator and hard to get along with. I want to >see > sharing be fun. > > As for myself, I can definitely trace my WISE line back to >Indiana/Ohio > and tentatively back to Pennsylvania. I'll get around to posting > something more later. > > Lets see if anyone reads down this far. > > How about everyone introduce yourself. Just hit reply and tell us a >bit > about yourself [ we'll get around to trees later ]. > > -- > > > Life is what > happens while you're busy making other plans. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >the body of > the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message >